The Iron Road to Walhalla

Sleeping peacefully under the watch of the omnipresent mountains, the Gippsland ghost town of Walhalla bears its name appropriately, Walhalla or Valhalla, the resting place of slain heroes of Norse legend, cradles the apparition of a once roaring town nurtured on gold. A town that ascended in wealth and importance with rapidity and descended just as quickly when the precious metal petered out.